The next morning I was woken up by my mother.

  “Good morning sweety” she said while sitting on my bed.

  “Good morning” I said back, still somewhat asleep.

  “I came to get you for a picnic. Your father is having a training exercise with the knights and your sister and I thought we could watch it together” she said.

  This woke me up instantly. I loved watching the swordsmanship training. I really wanted to start learning it, but was always told I was too young.

  BUt I was always allowed to watch them. Whenever I didn’t have lessons with my tutors, or wasn’t pying with Lilith, I would be watching the knight training.

  And even dad is participating.

  Dad was in charge of training Lilith with the sword, but their training was more secretive, so I wasn’t allowed to watch them.

  But now with the training exercise, I was getting super excited.

  And I think mom could tell.

  “Well. lets get going. I need to pick out your clothes” she said. She then got off my bed and walked towards my closet.

  I quickly get up to follow after her.

  She quickly picked out a full outfit for me from the clothes in my closet. It was a lot more than what Lilith had picked out for me st night.

  It was a full gothic lolita dress. She even matched both shoes and undergarments for it.

  It was still strange for me to wear something like this, but after putting it on, something just felt right.

  After changing, mom and I made our way outside to watch the training exercise.

  ∴

  As Hadron von Blut stood in front of the dozen knights under him, he paced back and forth.

  Then out of the corner of his eye, he spotted his wife and son come out to watch the training.

  He also noticed the clothes his wife had almost definitely chosen for their son.

  He had shown no qualms with how his son dressed. Having a boy dress like a girl was not unheard of in noble society. Cssical gender norms like that don’t really exist.

  Mixing that with Lilith’s former fear of men really lead this to be a non issue with Hadron.

  Lilith, his daughter, stod with the knights in front of him, and he could tell she saw them as well.

  Hadron knew Lilith adored her brother and that was part of what he was testing today. How well she fought in front of him.

  Over the st few days, they had taken a break from their lessons together because of Nyx. Lilith wouldn’t leave his side when he was sick.

  So for the first day back, he pnned to see how well she fights in front of him.

  Lilith was his heir. Most families stopped having only the oldest son being their heir a long time ago.

  Instead, most families go with the most capable of their children, for the field the family was known for.

  And for the Blut family, that would be combat, and their bloodline trait.

  For combat strength, Hadron knew that Lilith was extraordinary. In academics, she was hailed as a genius, but that doesn’t even compare to her skill with a sword. She was a natural.

  Hadron didn’t know how skilled Nyx was going to be in combat, since he was still too young to start training, but Nyx definitely had ambition for it.

  But the second quality was why there was no contest between who would become the next head of the family.

  Nyx, as far as anyone could tell, did not inherit the bloodline trait.

  He had none of the physical traits that came with the trait.

  And since that is a very important part of being the head of the family, the only choice for the next head was Lilith.

  And, Hadron was very happy with this.

  He was born into a family where it wasn’t clear who would be the next head, and there was a massive competition for it. So only having one clear choice that can’t be disputed worked well.

  He had promised that his children would not face the same problems he had.

  “All right Men!” Hadron yelled, deciding it was time to start the exercise. “Your only goal is to incapacitate me. You have until sundown… Begin!”

  With this yell at the end, all the knights, plus Lilith, charged at him.

  ∴

  Lilith loved to fight.

  She loved the power it gave her over others.

  She also loved the power it gave her to help others.

  When she was young, someone had made her feel powerless and weak, and she made sure that would never happen again.

  And over the st 2 years, while training with her father, she began to love it even more.

  Today was going to let her show off how much she had grown with her sword.

  And now it was also letting her show off to the person she wanted to see this the most.

  Nyx.

  Lilith loved her younger brother more than anything in the world.

  And him seeing her fight was going to be epic.

  Before the fight started, Hadron told her she wasn’t allowed to use her full power in front of him, just her sword. But even that was enough to show off.

  She knew what her father was telling her, and understood as well.

  ∴

  The fight went exactly as I expected.

  That was because I remember what happened in the prologue now.

  The prologue had three basic parts before you can start the main game. Part 1 was the introduction to the NPC interactions work. Part 2 was the test battle. And part 3 was the test boss.

  Part 1 had you interacting with a few NPCs somewhere. I don’t remember all of the story implications for this, but after that, you leave on a trip.

  Part 2 happens on the trip. Your carriage is attacked and you are forced to fight against a few low level bandits.

  And stly, part 3 is a boss fight. But since your character is low level, you are given control of a NPC.

  And that NPC is Hadron Blut, or at least it was for me.

  This means I have a clear idea of his level and proficiency. From what I remember, his level should be around 80 and his proficiency with his sword was almost 100, the max for the base game.

  In comparison, the knights should only be around level 25-30 with proffiencys to match. They never stood a chance.

  But the really surprising one was Lilith. She was clearly low level, probably either 1 or 0, but her proficiency was at least 15. She was 2 years before going to the academy, The start of the academy was the start of the main game, and I knew the levels for the start of the game.

  And from what I could tell, she was around the level as I should be at that point.

  It was so cool.

  And with the training exercise done, dad came over to talk to me and mom.